theartVIEw - Deborah Sengl at ESSL MUSEUM

For her first museum presentation at the ESSL MUSEUM Deborah Sengl has created an installation that combines history, literature and contemporary art in an extraordinary way. With some 200 stuffed white rats, she is staging The Last Days of Mankind after Karl Kraus in 44 individual scenes. Deborah Sengl has spent a year working on this elaborate project, based on the stage version of The Last Days of Mankind. Curators: Andreas Hoffer, Günther Oberhollenzer. 31.01.–25.05.2014.